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Table 3.

Types of omissions and embellishments in reporting RCT findings when clinical relevance was not reached and considered (n = 42)

Clinical Relevance discussion	Strategy for specific reporting	No. (%)
Clinical relevance discussed		24 (57)
Clinical relevance not discussed		18 (43)
not reached		16 (39)
	Full omission for the primary outcome	7 (44) ^a
	Full omission for all primary outcomes used in the sample size calculation^b	4 (25) ^a
	Clinical relevance discussed only as within-group improvements	4 (25) ^a
	Clinical relevance discussed at follow-ups not declared in the sample size calculation	1(6) ^a
reached		2 (5) ^a

^a The Total refers to 16 trials that not discussed the clinical relevance

^bComposite outcomes